APPENDIX 2
Selected recommendations by UK expert
committees for action to protect the public health from tobacco,
1962-1998
1962 The Royal College of Physicians of
London[60]
recommends action to "curb the present rising consumption
of tobacco, and especially of cigarettes", including:
— more effective public information
— strengthening of regulations forbidding
sales to children and sales from vending machines
— restriction of tobacco advertising
— organisation of smoking cessation
clinics
— disclosure of the constituents of
tobacco smoke on cigarette packets
— increases in tobacco taxation
1971 Royal College of Physicians of London[61]
recommends action to "end the present holocaust", including:
— more effective public information
— strengthening of regulations forbidding
sales to children and removal of vending machines from public
places
— prohibition of advertising and gift-coupon
schemes
— restriction of smoking in public
places
— development of more effective techniques
to help smokers to quit
— imposition of statutory limits on
tar and nicotine levels in cigarettes
1977 Royal College of Physicians of London[62]
recommends steps "to reduce and ultimately prevent the harm
now being done to people's health by smoking of tobacco",
including:
— more effective public information
— strengthening of regulations forbidding
sales to children and removal of vending machines from public
places
— phasing out of tobacco promotion,
including advertising coupons and sponsorship
— restrictions on smoking in public
places
— development of more effective techniques
to help smokers to quit
— limitation of tar and nicotine levels
1988 UK Independent Scientific Committee
on Smoking and Health[63]
recommends:
— more effective public information
— restrictions on smoking in public
places
— consideration of all options to encourage
more smokers to stop and to discourage nonsmokers from starting
1998 UK SCOTH Report[64]
recommends that "the Government should take effective action
to limit this preventable epidemic", including:
— more effective public information
— a ban on all forms of tobacco advertising,
promotion and identifiable sponsorship
— measures to restrict smoking in public
places
— encouraging smoking cessation
— increases in the real price of tobacco
products
60 Royal College of Physicians of London. Smoking and
Health. London: Pitman Medical, 1962. Back
61
Royal College of Physicians of London. Smoking and Health Now.
London: Pitman Medical, 1971. Back
62
Royal College of Physicians of London. Smoking or Health. London:
Pitman Medical, 1977. Back
63
Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health: Fourth
Report. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1988. Back
64
UK Department of Health. Report of the Scientific Committee on
Tobacco and Health. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1998. Back
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